The Cross-Border Mediation Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011

Made: 23rd March 2011

Coming into operation: 18th April 2011

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Citation, commencement and application

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Interpretation

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Confidentiality of Mediation

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Amendment of the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970

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Amendment of the Equal Pay Act (Northern Ireland) 1970

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Amendment of the Sex Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 1976

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Amendment of the Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978

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Amendment of the Domestic Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1980

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Amendment of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981

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Amendment of the Limitation (Northern Ireland) Order 1989

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Amendment of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

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Amendment of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

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Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 23rd March 2011.

O.G. Paulin — A senior officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations implement Directive 2008/52/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on certain aspects of mediation in civil and commercial matters, which applies to cross border disputes.

Regulation 3 sets out when mediators and those involved in the administration of mediation may be compelled to give evidence in civil and commercial judicial proceedings or arbitration.

Regulations 4 to 12 provide for the extension of limitation periods so that these do not expire during the mediation process. Where a period would otherwise have expired while mediation is ongoing or within 8 weeks of it ending, the regulations extend the period so that it will expire 8 weeks after the end of mediation.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 2010/2690

[^f00002]: 1972 c.68. Section2(2) was amended by section27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and section 3 of, and the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7).

[^f00003]: O.J. L 136, 24.5.2008, p. 3.

[^f00004]: 1970 c.18

[^f00005]: 1970 c.32

[^f00006]: S.I. 1976/1042 (N.I. 15)

[^f00007]: S.I. 1978/1045 (N.I. 15)

[^f00008]: 1882 c. 75

[^f00009]: S.I. 1980/563 (N.I. 5)

[^f00010]: S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26)

[^f00011]: S.I. 1989/1339 (N.I.11)

[^f00012]: SI 1996/1919 (N.I.16)

[^f00013]: SI 1998/3162 (N.I.21)

Editorial notes